cm0002What's your hot sauce of choice?
What's your hot sauce of choice? - Lemmy Cafe
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I love pretty much anything by Melinda’s
wirelesswireI recently got a bottle of Melinda’s Garlic & Habanero sauce. It might be my favorite hot sauce that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.
SSTFI’m partial to the Dave’s Carolina Reaper sauce.
If I’m in a different mood the El Yucateco habanero sauce has great flavor.
Gochujang for cooking. Usually the T. UP imported stuff from Korea.
Gochujang chicken with rice and veggies in a bowl has become a default “lazy workday dish” at our place.
Trappey Joes
Excellent cayenne hot sauce.
ZorsithPretty fond of Nandos Garlic sauce, but theres also
- Djablo Power Jab (filipino - earthy but HOT
- Burns & Mccoy - Mezcaline (warm and fantastic on a taco, not crazy hot)
Good ol’ Sriracha because of its versatility. It goes well with so many foods.
MelonYellowHmm it’s the sweetness that makes it not versatile for me
I’ve tried a few different brands of sriracha, and there were only like two that I liked. The others had more sweetness that I didn’t like.
RedEye FlightControlFrank’s RedHot
I like Franks in wing sauce but prefer Cholula for pretty much anything else.
Cholula with mayo and ketchup makes a great fry sauce.
That’s my favorite on most foods. For Mexican I go with Valentina and for Asian food I go with Sriracha
Do you….
put that shit on everything?
You bet your ass I do
I’m a pepper head, but for some dishes, that cayenne vinegar is a necessary flavor component.
- Blair’s death sauce: quite spicy and a really nice habanero flavour
- Mad dog 357: VERY spicy. Great for when you just need to pump the spice level. One drop will make your dish spicy, two drops very spicy, three drops sweating and hiccups
My wife got me a bottle of Da Bomb as a joke for Valentine’s and I’ve been working through that for over a year.
I was just gifted a whole season of hot ones sauces. Came with da bomb evolution and havent tried it yet
It’s definitely the worst of all of them. Zero redeeming features.
I’ve had da bomb beyond insanity before so im curious how i react to this one.
Its an experience, not a flavour.
ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠Depends what I’m eating! Different heats for different meats, y’know?
Here in Chicago there a company called Coop Hot Sauce that makes an amazing array of sauces seasonally. Their “Unicorn Tears” is a good all-purpose hotsauce featuring fermented seranno. They had one two years ago made with habanero and pepitas that was amazing on anything with cheese.
For big brands, Yucateco is very good. Their green habanero is good in chicken soup or in mac’n’cheese. The black label aged habanero is fire on fried chicken or added to salad dressings. The ‘Caribbean’ roasted habanero is closest to the fresh roasted habanero salsas that the better restaurants on the West Side make in house.
With East and Southeast Asian dishes, sambal oeleck is tops. I have a soft spot for hot mustard with egg rolls, though.
While I have a few in the medium, and very hot categories, what I really use a lot of is a relatively mild green sauce. I like to be able to add a lot flavor without making something crazy hot. I used to use Tabasco green, later upgraded to Cholula green, but my favorite these days is Callahan’s Poblano green chili sauce. The Bronx Greenmarket is really good too.
Boomer Humor DoomergodDepends on the application. Sriracha is good on hard boiled eggs, but Texas Pete is better on Mac and cheese.
Crystal and Sambal, depending on the dish. Tabasco if it’s gumbo or soup or whatever but Tabasco is more concentrated and I like it best as an ingredient than as a sauce.
swelter_sparkGood point about Tabasco.
Tapatio, Valentina’s, or Cholula.
Cholula Chipotle!
Home made version of Marie Sharp’s with more smoke.
There’s a smoked habanero they put out at one point-- not sure if it was a limited run or not but it had a pretty decent smoke taste
Easier for me to just make a half gallon at a time an jar it up.
Smokin’ Ed’s Unique Garlique. Garlic makes everything better, and this sauce is both tasty and really hot at the same time.
HossenfefferMahi Bhut Jolokia sauce is my go to.
agamemnonymousClassic black Truff sauce. The black truffle elevates just about everything I put it on, and the heat has depth instead of just being heat.
Hmmm. I never considered black truffle to have heat.
Oh it doesn’t, it’s a hot sauce and one of the ingredients is also black truffle
Ohh, is there a specific brand?
“Truff”
Melinda’s Ghost Pepper sauce. Hot and delicious, available at the supermarket near me
Tapatío
Delicious sauce, but I personally wouldn’t consider that hot at all.
I love all kinds of hot sauce, but my widespread go-to for eggs and potatoes is good old Tapatio.
This was my go-to for a while. I still keep this one on hand, but I recently have been defaulting to Hoff Sauce more recently. If you see it for sale, I recommend you give it a try.
AkasazhSambal Oelek
“Sambal is a spicy, chili-based condiment or relish that originated in Southeast Asia and is common in Indonesian, Malaysian, and Singaporean cuisine”
Yup, there’s lots of varieties too.
There’s not much to choose from in Spain, I’ve been buying one called Valentina lately.
Same in baltics but valentina is indeed amazing. It’s cheap, tastes good and is nice and acidic.
Chipotle Tobasco or Chipotle Cholula
RubberElectronsChipotle Cholula for me
Secret Aardvark habanero sauce is so, so good. I’ll put it on just about anything. It’s by no means the hottest sauce out there, but I’ll put its flavor up against any other sauce. I buy this stuff by the case at this point.
Agreed, that and yellow bird habanero are the two sauces that I need to have a supply of at all times.
I knew I would find this comment here. It’s so damn good, got some in my fridge right now.
Damn, thought I’d beat you to it lol
𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍Pepper Palace has a Cinnamon Habanero sauce that tastes like a really good BBQ sauce. It’s amazing
Not sure if home made is what you have in mind but for me its this youtu.be/-wgZ7s3YxWI
Very Good Chili Crisp Recipe
Valentina Extra Hot
lennybirdGreat choice, and cheap compared to others!
The standard valentines is close to cholula sauce for a fraction of the price.
Frank’s (extra hot buffalo, too) and Sriracha are always on hand in my house, too.
Elijah’s Xtreme Ghost Pepper. Incredible flavor and the right amount of heat for me
“Ultra death sauce”…
Yeah, the name… I’m not sure what’s wrong with people naming chili sauces. Also, it’s pretty inaccurate as I am alive and well.
Anyway, for me it hits a good balance between being proper spicy and a rounded taste.
AmnesigenicQueen’s Majesty has a coffee & habanero sauce that is incredibly delicious, best I’ve ever tasted